Which is more profound, The Charcoal Seller or The Stone Entrencher ?

If you compare the two, I personally have to be more profound about the stone trenchers, because the picture depicted in Du Fu's stone trenches is impressive, extremely sad and desolate.

The Stone Trench Officials is a profound and outstanding realist narrative poem, writing the story of the officials who went to the stone trench village to catch people and recruit soldiers at night, and even the old women who were old and weak were arrested and served, exposing the brutality of the officials and the darkness of the military service system, and expressing deep sympathy for the suffering of the people in the Anshi Rebellion.

It's still "The Charcoal Seller". An old man, in the cold winter, is obviously thinly clothed, but he is still worried that he will not be able to sell charcoal. The poor shirt is single, and the heart is worried and wishes for the cold.

"The Charcoal Seller" and "The Stone Entrencher" start from different aspects, both of which portray and lash out at the darkness of reality. In "The Stone Trencher", the servant does not even let go of a weak old woman, and I think "The Stone Trencher" is more profound than "The Charcoal Seller".

Both poems are narrative poems with a relatively complete story development process. Let's talk about the differences in writing techniques and human characteristics.

"The Stone Trencher" uses a completely realistic approach, the language is simple, straightforward, and there are no rare words, and the dialogue between the old woman and the official is used to present the complete plot, and the author is very calm and restrained in the whole process, but it is this way of writing that can resonate more with readers.

In "The Carbon Seller", Bai Juyi's writing style is just the opposite of Du Fu, he first used a lot of pen and ink to describe the image of the charcoal seller and the hard work of cutting wood and charcoal, and the whole process is the author telling one thing, rather than presenting one thing through the protagonist. This is the difference between the two writing techniques.

The officials portrayed in "The Stone Trench Officer" are strong and domineering, and the peasants are pitiful and helpless.

The author of "Selling Carbon Weng" uses emotional pen and ink to create a lowest-class working people, who are conflicted, worried about the cold, and poor in clothes.

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Stone Trencher.

The main differences are that the authors of the works are different, the content and meaning of the works are different, and the literary genres are different, as follows:

1. The authors of the works are different.

1. Sell charcoal.

"Selling Charcoal" is one of the poems in the "Xin Yuefu" group composed by the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi.

2. Stone trench officials.

"The Stone Trench Officer" is a poem written by the great poet Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty, which is one of the "Three Officials and Three Farewells".

2. The content and meaning of the works are different.

1. Sell charcoal.

This poem uses individual examples to show the general situation, describing the hardships of an old man who burns charcoal to make a living, and profoundly exposes the corrupt nature of the "palace market" through the experience of the charcoal seller, gives a powerful whip and attack on the crimes of the rulers to plunder the people, satirizes the corrupt social reality at that time, and expresses the author's deep sympathy for the lower class working people, which has a strong social typical significance.

2. Stone trench officials.

This poem exposes the brutality of the feudal rulers through the story of the stone trench officials who caught people at night that the author saw with his own eyes, reflects the profound disasters brought to the people by the war caused by the "Anshi Rebellion" in the Tang Dynasty, and expresses the poet's deep sympathy for the working people.

3. Literary genres are different.

1. Sell charcoal.

Seven ancient poems, Yuefu poems.

2. Stone trench officials.

Five words of ancient poetry.

The charcoal sellers and stone trenchers ridiculed the government. One is that the government oppresses ordinary peasants, and the other is that the government has heavy military service.

These two poems are "inspired by sorrow and fate", with a strong spirit of realism, and both reflect the political corruption of the Tang Dynasty in the Middle Tang Dynasty to a certain extent.

Taking the elderly as the object of description can better reflect the dire situation of the people at the bottom, "The Stone Entrenchment" is the official who caught Ding at night in the war, and finally the old man was "caught", and "The Charcoal Seller" is also even if he is old, forced to make a living, the old man still has to sell charcoal to make a living.

Translation: There was an old man who sold charcoal, chopping wood and burning charcoal in Zhongnan Mountain. His face was dusty, the color of a smoky fire, his temples were gray, and his ten fingers were jet black.

What is the use of selling charcoal to get money? For the clothes you wear and the food you eat in your mouth. The clothes on the poor body are very thin, but I am worried that the price of charcoal will be closed and cheap, and I hope that the weather will be colder.

At night, it snowed a foot thick outside the city, and in the early morning, the old man drove a charcoal cart through the frozen ruts. The cattle were tired, the people were hungry, the sun was already rising, and the old man rested in the mud outside the south gate of the market.

The two men on horseback came briskly, who were they? Eunuchs dressed in yellow and servants dressed in white. Holding an official document in his hand, he said that it was the emperor's order, and then pulled the head of the cart and shouted to drive the cattle to the north.

A cart of charcoal, more than a thousand catties, the palace city envoys insisted on driving it away, but the old man was reluctant to give it up, but there was no way to leak it. The envoys of the palace market hung half a horse of red silk and a zhang of silk on the head of the ox as the price of charcoal.